Yarmouth sets date for override vote recount

Friday

Sep 26, 2008 at 5:57 PM

YARMOUTH – The recount of the Sept. 16 special election override vote will take place Oct. 1, Town Clerk Jane Hibbert said today.

Doug Fraser

YARMOUTH – The recount of the Sept. 16 special election override vote will take place Oct. 1, Town Clerk Jane Hibbert said today. If the recount overturns the Sept. 16 decision, and approves a $1.4 million override, selectmen will have to decide whether to hold a special town meeting.

Town meeting approval is required for the town to restore money that has been cut from municipal budgets. It would have to be done within two to three weeks to have the tax rate certified by the state in time to mail out tax bills, said Assistant Town Administrator Peter Johnson-Staub. If not, the town would have to send out estimated tax bills.

The $1.4 million override was necessary to replace money in the municipal budget that had to be used to pay part of the Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District’s $48.7 million budget. Voters at a regional school district meeting in July approved the school budget and Yarmouth and Dennis were obligated by state law to fund it. Dennis voters approved a $257,000 override to help pay its portion of the budget, but the Yarmouth override failed by 55 votes at the September special election.

Read more about the override vote recount in tomorrow’s Cape Cod Times.